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Issue: Vol. 5175 No. 5: 19 Aug. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-08-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5175.5.8
Page range: 593-599
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Two new species of the genera Leiophron Nees and Paroligoneurus Muesebeck (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from northern India

ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, the Netherlands.
ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India
ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India
ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India
Hymenoptera Euphorinae Ichneutinae new taxa India

Abstract

Two new species of parasitoid wasps, Leiophron indefinita Gupta & van Achterberg sp. nov. (Braconidae, Euphorinae) and Paroligoneurus indicus Gupta & van Achterberg sp. nov. (Braconidae, Ichneutinae) are described and illustrated from northern India.

 

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